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Item Details
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BENITO CERENO
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| By: |
Herman Melville, Jay Fliegelman (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333914414 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333914410 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
21 February, 2003 |
| Series: |
Bedford Cultural Editions |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
This definitive edition offers an authoritative text of Melville's classic novel, accompanied by a selection of thematically organised documents which give a sense of the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century America. Materials include selections from Amasa Delano, William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Douglass, and Putnam's Magazine. |
| Synopsis: |
This definitive, annotated edition offers an authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic short novel, accompanied by a generous selection of documents designed to give students a sense of the rich historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century America. The documents are thematically organised into categories including Sources/Pretexts; Melville on Race/Violence; Catholicism, Empire and the Union; Scientific Racism; and The Literature of Slave Rebellions in the 1850s. Materials include selections from Amasa Delano, William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Douglass, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Supreme Court arguments, a previously unpublished blackface skit, and Putnam's Magazine. |
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bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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